Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Produce

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In 2003 a local restaurant chain found itself in the midst of a Hepatitis A outbreak that caused the restaurant to become a "former...

Protecting Intellectual Property in Supply Chain Systems

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This weeks articles on supply chain systems suggest that the trend of offshore sourcing and manufacturing may be less pro...

Smarter Medicine: The next step in the CDC’s revolution in delivery of childhood vaccinations.

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Vaccine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanofi-pasteur/5283533286/ The CDC went live with VMBIP , the Vaccine Managem...

A Green Future?

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-by Whitney Coble This post is in response to Future Supply Chain.  I recently learned about an unusual partnership between Wal-Mart and P...

Ethics, Crime, and Google: Supply Chain Networks

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I recently attended a panel discussion on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the 2012 Harvard Social Enterprise Conference. The pa...

Altruism vs. Price - What will drive future supply chain networks?

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Intro In this week's reading, one particular quote from "Future Supply Chain 2016" irked me. Under Industry Trends Reporting ...

Catch 22

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From the readings this week, there were two components of supply chain networks that stuck out to me. The first was that SC networks are com...

Week 5 - "Reshoring"

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“Reshoring” is a new trend within the manufacturing industry.  A MIT study found that 14% of U.S. companies are planning on-moving man...

Foxconn Riots and iPhone Production

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This week we read about increasing manufacturing costs in China and how they connect to iPhone production. As it turns out, this topic is ve...
Monday, September 24, 2012

The Future of Outsourcing

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I very rarely dabble in politics, but given that it is an election year, and there are endless political ads everywhere, I thought it would ...